problems after ugrading pc

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I just upgraded my 450mhz pc to an pentium 4 2.4mhz.
The old pc was about six years old and the new sys would
not recognize the c/drive, so I scrapped it and bought a
new western digital to go along with my older western
digital. I then installed windows xp installation went
fine. Oh i configured the new drive as master and the
older one as slave hoping to preseve the files on the
older drive. Problem, after the installation the new
drive where windows was installed was labeled f: drive
and the older drive labeled as C: drive. XP runs okay
from the new drive but the c: drive even though it shows
9 megabytes as being used which was what was on the drive
but I cannot view them. I can install programs ont the
drive and they show okay. Can't figure out what happened.
My new sys. is an intel motherboard with 800mhz FSB and
pentium 4 4.2 proccessor with two dimm 512 mg of ram any
suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ed
 
Ed said:
I just upgraded my 450mhz pc to an pentium 4 2.4mhz.
The old pc was about six years old and the new sys would
not recognize the c/drive, so I scrapped it and bought a
new western digital to go along with my older western
digital. I then installed windows xp installation went
fine. Oh i configured the new drive as master and the
older one as slave hoping to preseve the files on the
older drive. Problem, after the installation the new
drive where windows was installed was labeled f: drive
and the older drive labeled as C: drive. XP runs okay
from the new drive but the c: drive even though it shows
9 megabytes as being used which was what was on the drive
but I cannot view them.
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What happens when you try and view the files on C:, the old drive? Any
specific error messages or entries in the event log?
I can install programs ont the
drive and they show okay.
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You mean install programs on the old C: drive? OK.
Can't figure out what happened.
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Windows XP obviously detected a drive that was being used as C:, and for
whatever reason picked a new letter for the new drive. Although I'm puzzled
why it didn't pick D or E.

@drian.
 
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